Haskell Weekly News: September 6, 2005

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New Releases

h4sh 0.2. Donald Bruce Stewart
announced
version 0.2 of h4sh, a tool to expose Haskell functions to
shell scripters. This release adds more functions, removed
argument flags, cabalized the package, added regex operators,
and had some other changes as well.

cabal-get/put beta. Isaac Jones announced
the beta of cabal-get, which will download and install Haskell
packages and their dependencies. It is designed to work for any
cabal-compatible package. The cabal-get team is
looking for beta testers to
try out both cabal-get and cabal-put.

Discussion

Emacs haskell-mode. Frederik Eaton began a
thread
on the Emacs haskell-mode, asking where the latest version is
available from.

Time limits on computations. Dmitry Vyal asked
how to set a time limit on computations. Several different
suggestions were presented over the course of the discussion.

Haskell Toolchain

The Haskell CVS server, previously hosted at OGI, is now being
hosted
by Galois. There is a new
machine and updated software, but it should be a drop-in
replacement overall.

Darcs Corner

Darcs 1.0.4pre3 and pre4. Two new Darcs prerelease
versions happened this week. First, 1.0.4pre3 was
announced
this week. 1.0.4pre4 quickly followed,
correcting an error in a Makefile. This is expected to be the
last prerelease prior to 1.0.4 itself.

Quote of the Week

"When I read through a Haskell program, it's more like reading
a novel than solving a calculus problem." --
post on
the Haskell Sequence

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